Study on Carbohydrate Metabolism in Adult Zebrafish (Danio rerio)

Table 3

Growth performance of male zebrafish fed different experimental diets for 6 weeks.

Parameters	Diets^a						Contrast
	C0	C10	C20	C30	C40	C50	Linear	Quadratic	Cubic
IBW (mg)	250.4 ± 2.0	250.7 ± 1.6	250.6 ± 1.2	250.7 ± 0.8	250.4 ± 1.8	250.6 ± 1.7	ns	ns	ns
FBW (mg)	392.4 ± 6.3	403.9 ± 5.3	392.2 ± 11.1	390.2 ± 11.9	388.5 ± 7.1	384.6 ± 2.6	ns	ns	ns
WG (%)	56.7 ± 1.8	61.1 ± 1.4	56.6 ± 4.6	55.6 ± 5.0	55.2 ± 3.3	53.5 ± 1.4	ns	ns	ns
SGR (%/day)	1.1 ± 0.0	1.1 ± 0.0	1.1 ± 0.1	1.1 ± 0.1	1.0 ± 0.0	1.0 ± 0.0	ns	ns	ns
IFL (mm)	28.6 ± 0.3	28.3 ± 0.3	29.6 ± 0.1	27.5 ± 1.1	28.9 ± 0.5	28.3 ± 0.6	ns	ns	ns
FFL (mm)	36.2 ± 0.1	36.2 ± 0.3	36.8 ± 0.2	36.4 ± 0.4	36.5 ± 0.4	36.2 ± 0.2	ns	ns	ns
CF (%)	0.83 ± 0.02	0.85 ± 0.03	0.79 ± 0.03	0.81 ± 0.02	0.80 ± 0.02	0.81 ± 0.01	ns	ns	ns

Note. Data in the table are represented as means ± SEM (n = 3). ns, nonsignificant; IBW, initial body weight; FBW, final body weight; WG, Weight gain = 100 × (Final body weight − Initial body weight)/Initial body weight; IFL, initial fork length; FFL, final fork length; SGR, Specific growth rate = 100 × [ln (Final body weight) – ln (Initial body weight)]/days; CF, Condition factor = 100 × (Body weight/Body length³). ^aC0, C10, C20, C30, C40, and C50 represent diets in which dextrin levels of 0%, 10%, 20%, 30%, 40%, and 50%, respectively.